My Full Make.com Blueprint For Automating a Sheets → OpenAI → Ghost Content Pipeline
I wired my entire content pipeline into Make.com so a single row in Google Sheets turns into a published Ghost post. Here is the exact scenario, module by module.
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AI
Productivity Hacking With AI: How I Let a Model Reorder My To‑Do List
I stopped manually grooming my to-do list and let a model reorder it using my own data. Here is how that actually works day to day, and what broke.
Mac Studio As My Daily AI Workhorse (And How I Actually Use The GPU)
How I use a Mac Studio as a daily AI development box, where Apple Silicon shines for AI workloads, and how to avoid the usual GPU bottlenecks.
Whoop Data Meets AI: Forecasting My Best Training Days
I used Whoop data plus a simple AI workflow to predict when I am most likely to hit great training sessions. The model is rough, opinionated, and already beating my gut feeling.
CSS Variables in the Age of AI: Letting Models Design Your Themes
I stopped hand-tuning every color token and let AI generate theme palettes on top of CSS variables. The result: faster theming, fewer regressions, and weirder experiments.
Build in Public with Less Friction: My Real-Time Dev Diary Using NoteVault
How I turned my messy real-time dev notes into a clean public build log using NoteVault and AI summarization, without adding extra overhead to my day.
CSS
CSS Variables in the Age of AI: Letting Models Design Your Themes
I stopped hand-tuning every color token and let AI generate theme palettes on top of CSS variables. The result: faster theming, fewer regressions, and weirder experiments.
CSS Flexbox For Adaptive Fitness Dashboards That Don’t Suck On Mobile
How I use Flexbox to keep a workout dashboard readable when the data gets weird and the layout has to adapt on the fly. Practical patterns from a real fitness tracking UI.
Using CSS Variables To Theme Biohacking Dashboards Without Losing Your Mind
How I use CSS variables to keep my HRV, sleep, and training dashboards visually consistent, even when the tools do everything in their power to look different.
Animating Sleep Cycle Data With CSS: Turning Rest Into Motion
I turned boring sleep tracking exports into an animated CSS timeline that makes light, deep and REM stages instantly readable. No chart library, just HTML, CSS, and some carefully timed motion.
Designing Neurofeedback Dashboards With CSS Grid That Don’t Suck
How I used CSS Grid to design an intuitive real-time brainwave monitoring dashboard, without leaning on JS layout hacks or UI kits.
CSS Custom Properties For Responsive Biohacking Dashboards
How I use CSS custom properties to make my health dashboards adapt to any screen, metric, or weird HRV experiment without rewriting half my CSS every month.
Frontend
My Full Make.com Blueprint For Automating a Sheets → OpenAI → Ghost Content Pipeline
I wired my entire content pipeline into Make.com so a single row in Google Sheets turns into a published Ghost post. Here is the exact scenario, module by module.
AI-Optimized Asset Bundling: How I Cut Frontend Load Time in Half
I wired AI into my bundling pipeline to handle minification, dead-code hunting and asset grouping. It cut load time in half without a framework rewrite.
AI-Powered CSS Grid Layouts: My Actual Workflow, Not Hype
How I actually use AI to generate responsive CSS Grid layouts without turning my front-end into a black box. This is my real workflow, warts and all.
CSS Flexbox For Adaptive Fitness Dashboards That Don’t Suck On Mobile
How I use Flexbox to keep a workout dashboard readable when the data gets weird and the layout has to adapt on the fly. Practical patterns from a real fitness tracking UI.
Designing Neurofeedback Dashboards With CSS Grid That Don’t Suck
How I used CSS Grid to design an intuitive real-time brainwave monitoring dashboard, without leaning on JS layout hacks or UI kits.
CSS Custom Properties For Responsive Biohacking Dashboards
How I use CSS custom properties to make my health dashboards adapt to any screen, metric, or weird HRV experiment without rewriting half my CSS every month.
Productivity
Productivity Hacking With AI: How I Let a Model Reorder My To‑Do List
I stopped manually grooming my to-do list and let a model reorder it using my own data. Here is how that actually works day to day, and what broke.
How I Actually Time Block a Week Without Burning Out
I tried to engineer the perfect calendar. Then I watched it get wrecked by reality every single week. This is the version of time blocking that actually survives contact.
Notion vs Obsidian for a Solo Developer: What I Actually Use
After 2 years using Notion and Obsidian side by side, I stopped pretending they compete. Here is what I genuinely use each one for as a solo developer.
What 90 Days Of HRV Data Taught Me About Stress I Thought I Was Managing
I logged HRV every day for 90 days and realised my “I’m fine” story was mostly fiction. The data showed stress patterns I never would have blamed.
Speed vs Correctness: What Youth Baseball Umpiring Taught Me About Production Deploys
Umpiring youth baseball taught me more about production deploys than any DevOps book. Both are about making fast, irreversible calls with incomplete data and living with them.
Why I Still Plan My Week On Paper In 2026
I have tried every productivity stack you see on Twitter, but one thing never moved: a weekly paper planning note. Here is what it does that no app can touch.
Biohacking
Whoop Data Meets AI: Forecasting My Best Training Days
I used Whoop data plus a simple AI workflow to predict when I am most likely to hit great training sessions. The model is rough, opinionated, and already beating my gut feeling.
Biohacking Neural Interfaces With Sovereign AI Control Loops
How I think about combining brain-computer interfaces with sovereign AI agents for tighter control, safer feedback loops, and real-world biohacking use. Less sci-fi, more wiring diagrams.
Using CSS Variables To Theme Biohacking Dashboards Without Losing Your Mind
How I use CSS variables to keep my HRV, sleep, and training dashboards visually consistent, even when the tools do everything in their power to look different.
Sovereign AI For My Smart Home Lab: Biohacking Without Giving Big Tech My Vitals
I wired my biohacking devices into a sovereign, self-hosted AI that lives on my network and actually runs my protocols. No cloud, no API key dependency, just a bossy local model running my day.
AI-Driven Biohacking: How I Predict My Stress Before It Hits
This is how I wired my wearables, calendar, and AI into a predictive stress system that warns me before I spiral instead of after it is too late.
Animating Sleep Cycle Data With CSS: Turning Rest Into Motion
I turned boring sleep tracking exports into an animated CSS timeline that makes light, deep and REM stages instantly readable. No chart library, just HTML, CSS, and some carefully timed motion.
Tools
Mac Studio As My Daily AI Workhorse (And How I Actually Use The GPU)
How I use a Mac Studio as a daily AI development box, where Apple Silicon shines for AI workloads, and how to avoid the usual GPU bottlenecks.
Notion vs Obsidian for a Solo Developer: What I Actually Use
After 2 years using Notion and Obsidian side by side, I stopped pretending they compete. Here is what I genuinely use each one for as a solo developer.
How I Automated My Ghost Member Welcome Flow With Make.com
I wired Ghost into Make.com so new members hit a proper conditional welcome flow instead of a single bland email. Here is the exact scenario, modules, and gotchas.
Make.com Error Handling Patterns That Actually Work
The worst Make.com scenarios are not the ones that crash. They are the ones that silently stop working. Here is how I design every scenario to make failure loud and obvious.
How I Evaluate a New Dev Tool (My 3‑Question Filter)
I run every new dev tool through the same 3‑question filter before it touches my real workflow. Here is how Cursor, Tower, and SecondsPro managed to earn their place.
The Make.com Modules I Actually Use Every Week (And The Ones I Killed)
I spent a few weekends brutally auditing my Make.com scenarios. These are the modules that actually earn their place every week, and the ones I ripped out as pure complexity.
Build in Public
20 Years of richardlemon.com – A Website Grows Up
What the Wayback Machine remembers about you – and what it says about where you're going.
Build in Public with Less Friction: My Real-Time Dev Diary Using NoteVault
How I turned my messy real-time dev notes into a clean public build log using NoteVault and AI summarization, without adding extra overhead to my day.
How To Tell If Your GEO Is Working: The Metrics That Actually Matter In 2026
Impressions are lying to you. Here’s how I actually measure GEO in 2026 using entity recognition, citation tracking, and AI answer monitoring that maps to revenue.
Sovereign AI: Owning Your Model, Not Just Your Data
Centralized AI wants your data. Sovereign AI asks what you can do with your own. I’ll show how I actually run decentralized models and keep my data close.
My Step‑By‑Step Local SEO GEO Strategy For Small Businesses
How I actually build a GEO strategy for real small business clients. From first audit to entity setup, llms.txt, schema, and content structure, week by week.
How I Actually Time Block a Week Without Burning Out
I tried to engineer the perfect calendar. Then I watched it get wrecked by reality every single week. This is the version of time blocking that actually survives contact.
Thoughts
20 Years of richardlemon.com – A Website Grows Up
What the Wayback Machine remembers about you – and what it says about where you're going.
A New Chapter: Biohacking My Way to a Healthier Me
As the year ends, I’m excited to share the beginning of my weight loss journey—a journey I’m
Sovereign AI for Healthcare Records: Patient-First, Not Platform-First
I wanted to see if sovereign AI plus decentralized records could give patients actual control over their medical data, not just another privacy checkbox. This is the architecture I ended up sketching out.
The Mental Load After A Youth Baseball Loss (And How I Don’t Bring It Home)
Youth coaching looks light and fun from the fence. After a loss, it is not. This is how I decompress, process, and handle the parent dynamic without burning out.
Quiet Leadership in Youth Baseball: Coaching By Asking Better Questions
I stopped yelling instructions in youth baseball and started asking questions instead. The dugout got quieter, the kids got smarter, and the results surprised me.
Most U12 Baseball Practices Are Broken: Drill Reps vs Game Reps
Most U12 baseball practices look great on paper and produce awful in-game decisions. Here is the gap between drill reps and game reps, and how I try to fix it.